Reverend Doctor James Scarth Gale Scholarship in East Asian Studies

The scholarship is awarded based on academic merit to an undergraduate or graduate student, in support of his or her study or research in East Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea, etc.)

To apply, please submit your application in an envelope with your name and the fellowship to which you are applying to the Department by April 1, 2015. Your application must include:

A cover letter

Your study or research plan

A printout of your ROSI academic history

A letter of recommendation from your supervisor or instructor in the course related to your study/research plan. This letter must be included in your application envelope in a sealed envelope with the author’s signature over the seal.

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Modernist Studies Association has announced its short list for the 2015 MSA Book Prize. Professor Janet Poole's book, When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, has made the short list. Congratulations! The award winner will be announced in Boston at the MSA's 17th annual conference, November 19-22.

Congratulations to EAS doctoral student Elizabeth Parke, who has just been awarded a Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities for 2015-16!

EAS graduate students have had extraordinary success in recent scholarship competitions. Our congratulations go to Jeremy Hurdis for winning a Doctoral SSHRC Award, to Kyrie Vermette who has been awarded a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship, to Kristin Sivak who has been offered an Ontario Graduate Scholarship Visa Award, and to Alexandre Pacquet and incoming student Stacy Lafortune-Coutlee for their Ontario Graduate Scholarship Domestic Awards. Kristin Sivak has also received a Japan Foundation Award to conduct research in Japan. Well done everyone!

Professor Yiching Wu has received the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association for his book, The Cultural Revolution at the Margins (Harvard University Press, 2014). The Award "rewards an especially meritorious work by a beginning scholar."

The department celebrates two recent publications:
When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, by Janet Poole (Columbia University Press, 2014)
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis, by Yiching Wu (Harvard University Press, 2014)
For more information, please see People >> Publications.